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led me to be the reverse of enthusiastic. Such possibilities have been 

 suggested by some, of different human inhabitants, or of anew fauna or flora; 

 but the probabilities amount essentially to a certainty that the fauna and 

 flora of Crocker Land will be identical with those of northern Grant Land, 

 although of course there is likely to be some variation. There is no question 

 as to the possibility of a distinctly different geological formation, and there 

 is always the chance of mineral deposits, among which graphite, mica and 

 cryolite are no doubt most to be expected. Thus perhaps, the work of the 

 Crocker Land expedition will not only fill with definitely outlined land and 

 sea a large area of what is now blank space on the map, but in case this 

 land prove extensive may fill it also with interesting details. 



Tt may surprise as well as interest many to know that the second item 

 in the program of this expedition, namely, the crossing of Greenland from 

 the west coast to the east coast somewhere in the vicinity of the seventy- 

 eighth or seventy-ninth parallel, will be a trip which in length, the elevation 

 attained and the conditions under Avhich it must be accomplished, will be 

 almost a repetition of the journey of Amundsen from the Bay of Whales to 

 the South Pole, and that of Scott from ]\IacMurdo Sound to the Pole. This 

 traverse of the great inland ice cap of Greenland if accomplished, will be the 

 most important of an}' of the interior journeys yet undertaken in the Arctics. 



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Cape Thomas Hubbard from which the Crocker Land expedition must start northward 

 over the sea ice in search of the imknown country 



